The Port Folio, Томове 5–6Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1808 |
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... GENIUS , and that since our time of life is alike ransitory and dubious , we should remember , that in honest fame and heir applause of posterity , there found an existence beyond the grave . It is genius alone , that has a legitimate ...
... GENIUS , and that since our time of life is alike ransitory and dubious , we should remember , that in honest fame and heir applause of posterity , there found an existence beyond the grave . It is genius alone , that has a legitimate ...
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... genius led us to a public house , four miles beyond the settlement of religious Germans , whi- ther we were directed to wait the ar- rival of P—— , whom business detain- , ed two hours in the rear of our party ; when we met , he rallied ...
... genius led us to a public house , four miles beyond the settlement of religious Germans , whi- ther we were directed to wait the ar- rival of P—— , whom business detain- , ed two hours in the rear of our party ; when we met , he rallied ...
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... genius ; but a conclusion so important should never be inferred from one instance , especially when that is allowed to be extraordinary and almost supernatural . From the phenomena of so transcen- dent a genius we must not judge of ...
... genius ; but a conclusion so important should never be inferred from one instance , especially when that is allowed to be extraordinary and almost supernatural . From the phenomena of so transcen- dent a genius we must not judge of ...
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... genius by too. Lost , it gives a classical air to the poem : it refreshes the mind with new ideas ; and there is something in the very sound of the names of places and persons whom he celebrates that is wonderfully pleasing to the ear ...
... genius by too. Lost , it gives a classical air to the poem : it refreshes the mind with new ideas ; and there is something in the very sound of the names of places and persons whom he celebrates that is wonderfully pleasing to the ear ...
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... genius than Cowley , he abounds in tender thoughts beautiful lines and emphatical expres- sions . His wit is inexhaustible and his learning extensive ; but his taste is generally barbarous , and seems to have been formed upon such ...
... genius than Cowley , he abounds in tender thoughts beautiful lines and emphatical expres- sions . His wit is inexhaustible and his learning extensive ; but his taste is generally barbarous , and seems to have been formed upon such ...
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Страница 31 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Страница 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Страница 235 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Страница 132 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Страница 217 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Страница 235 - It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Страница 296 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this...
Страница 98 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Страница 294 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there ; but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession.
Страница 152 - that if ever " there was a good Christian, without knowing himself " to be so, it was Dr. Garth," seems not able to deny what he is angry to hear, and loth to confess.